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The Liu Xiaobo sage continues

Remember when China lost their heads over dissident Liu Xiaobo winning the Nobel Peace Prize? The mess remains in progress. His wife, supposedly given the chance to visit him and give him the news of his win, is now under arrest, too.

Then there’s nice, friendly People’s Daily Online, the cute little English-language mouthpiece of the regime. Look at how liberal China is being, they are even letting them write about Liu winning the Prize! Oh wait, they are just writing propaganda pieces that recycle vile commentary from the same bunch of Western useful idiots and reactionary Muslims. One of these useful idiots is especially worthy of our opprobrium:

Meanwhile, Morits Skaugen, chief executive officer of the Norwegian marine transportation service company I.M. Skaugen SE, published an article in the Norwegian-language newspaper Aftenposten on Tuesday, saying that it is China that should get the Nobel Peace Prize.

“Development in China is probably the greatest economic experiment we have seen ever,” Skaugen wrote.

My nostrils are flaring. How do you sleep at night, Morits Skaugen? Do you hear the screams of the 65 million innocents Mao butchered? Do you feel the blood of the Tibetans and the Uyghurs and Falun Gong and the Christians and the dissidents and everyone else brutalized by this regime on your hands? Maybe you would like to try a taste of the Cultural Revolution or the Great Leap Forward. How much I would love to see you live happily ever after in peaceful old late communist China. How much I would like to see you locked up without any rights in a black jail. Some day you will look back on this statement and wish you could have sewn your own mouth shut. You are an awful human.

Do your part to spit in the face of the murderous Chinese regime–read the Charter 08 document (H/T: Tyler Cowen) that put Liu Xiaobo in jail. For people used to living in freedom, it might not read as very interesting. There’s even some rather wishy-washy junk about social democracy that I have no use for. But the point is, people were willing to risk their lives and freedom for this document. It deserves to be read. It deserves to be shared. This regime deserves to be brought to its knees and the murderers who run it Ceausescu’d.

Your time is coming, Wen Jiabao and Hu Jintao. Enjoy crushing the people for now. They will crush you in due time.

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In reading about Morits I am reminded of all those socialist intellectuals we had running around during the Cold War like Michael Harrington, explaining to us lowly laymen how evil capitalism is all while the death toll of the USSR was mounting. Just once I wish these people would move to a Communist country and enjoy living under the government they think is so fantastic, while millions are risking their lives to vote with their feet in the opposite direction.

It’s not of the same magnitude as Walter “There’s no Ukrainian famine!” Duranty in Stalin’s USSR, but yeah, it’s bad. They make a mockery of the people who risk everything for the chance to clean toilets and drive taxis in any country that would take them.

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Yes, communism is evil; however, capitalism is also evil, when it’s allowed to run unchecked. We learned this over 80 years ago, but people have been brainwashed into forgetting what things were like when there were no holds barred on American ‘enterprise’.

A mixed economy is the best. There are some things for which government is best to handle things, especially essential services where profit-making is just plain wrong: public school teachers, police, firefighters, military, and, yes, health care. Corporations profiting from people’s illnesses is the height of obscenity.